Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Lemuel Gott

<p>Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. and against the admission of Florida and slave states </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857876">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857876</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Sandy Bay, town of Gloucester </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel L. Andrews, Gloucester </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Lemuel Gott</li><li>Samuel Small</li><li>Catherine M. Jannet</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 211 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 128 </p> <p>Female signatures: 83 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, males, females, ["others"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525 </p> <p>Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.</p>